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Summary: Sad Attempt by japanese Government to Hide the Truth.
Review: This is pathetic, these nips were hired by their government to write this book in order to clear their name, which is impossible. This coward of a country has done all they could to deny the holocaust they committed and doesn't have the balls to own up to what they did, like everyone else. They actually think the Germans were truly their allies when they could have cared less about that side of the world. If they really admired the Germans they should do what they did and APOLOGIZE to even BEGIN to regain any respect.
It says these issues were investigated according to japanese documents, well we already know how unreliable those are. They don't even let their younger generation know what really happened. The fact is that the Chinese poeple and japanese soldiers know what really happened, though some of those soldiers deny it, the ones that don't can't live it down, and they are shown crying about it on a documentary, saying how they felt terrible they raped women the way they did, now that they have children and grandchildren of their own. There are no words to describe the severity of their cowardice and lies. There are no words to describe how disgusting and malicious they are, how heinous their crimes. This country has been full of "schadenfreuer" and jealousy of their peaceful neighbors for thousands of years, and yet out of the blue they decided to take over a country of a billion people. Please. Why TORTURE if you simply wanted land? Why not kill them as fast and as easily as you can to get more accomplished? Obviously the answer is psychological. Extreme, built-up jealousy and the desire to show their non-existant "power" to the world, now that they're buddies with ol' Germany, they wanted to be like their big brother and show him what he can do too. If you want to really learn the history of this, read "The Rape of Nanking" and all the other books out there. This one is an obvious book of lies.
Any good review of this book is obviously done by a japanese (very possibly a government official or hiree) for there is absolutely NO reason anyone else would have the motive to do so. As for the "suicide" of Iris Chang (author of "Rape of Nanking"), I can bet money it was also the japanese government. How MYSTERIOUS the conditions of the "suicide".
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Summary: Japanese denial of a horrific past gains respectability.
Review: To understand the claustrophobic environment in Japan that has given rise to this book: bear in mind that the Japanese company Kashiwashobo had originally planned to publish Chinese-American journalist Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking" in Japan. Chang's book recounts the atrocities the Japanese Army committed during its occupation of Nanking in 1937. The book has received widespread critical acclaim, except from Holocaust deniers and their ilk, who place The Rape of Nanking in quotation marks, and insist it never happened. In 1999, Kashiwashobo announced it had canceled plans to publish the book. Chang's American publisher issued a statement saying that it could not reach agreement with Kashiwashobo on text and photographs the Japanese company was insisting had to be cut from the original. Chang refused, saying the requested bowdlerization was the result of pressure on Kashiwashobo from ultranationalist groups in Japan.
In a 1999 interview with salon.com, Chang noted: "Japanese extremists have used lawsuits, death threats and even physical intimidation to silence their opponents. Just this year, a fanatic with a baseball bat trashed the offices of a Japanese publisher who printed the diary of a Japanese veteran of the Nanking massacre. Also, when a Chinese feature film on the Rape of Nanking was shown in Japanese theaters a few months ago, right-wingers harassed theater owners, slashed up movie screens with knives and even smashed a loudspeaker truck through theater gates. In Germany, Holocaust deniers have no significant voice, and they remain on the fringes of society. But in Japan, those who deny the existence of the Nanking massacre often occupy leading positions in government, business and academia. For instance, I find it extremely disturbing that the newly elected governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, is an outspoken revisionist of World War II history. He told Playboy magazine back in 1990 that the Rape of Nanking was a "lie" and "a story made up by the Chinese." He's enormously popular in Japan, and he won the election by a landslide. Last summer, Kunihiko Saito, the Japanese ambassador to the U.S., made headlines when he attacked my book as "inaccurate" and "one-sided" -- though he couldn't come up with one good example to support his allegations, even when grilled by reporters. People were pretty shocked by his comments, because they were made not by some notorious ultranationalist fanatic but by a major Japanese government official -- indeed, the top official representative of the Japanese government in the U.S. And many people spoke up and criticized him for it. The People's Republic of China, my American publisher (Basic Books) and human rights groups like the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia all wrote letters protesting the ambassador's statements."
So in Japan, people don't get to read Chang's dangerous words. Instead, we in the West are treated to this sort of poisonous historical denial. You can see from some of the reviews below that some gullible people are ready to buy into it, or at least to say that accounts of the Rape need to be "balanced."
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Summary: Another Example of Growing Historical Hypocrasy
Review: [...] historians like David Irving have ruined their careers over denial of the Nazi Holocaust. This is understandable, since no sane person could believe that it didn't happen. The moutains of photographs and endless testimony prove that the Nazi regime was one of the most brutal who ever lived. The idea that it never happened is just science fiction. You would expect howls of indignation from around the world in response to this concoction of lies. You would also expect it to be career suicide on the part of the author. The case presented in this volume is said to be well documented, because it comes from Japanse military records. Does anyone remember what the word "falsification" means, boys and girls? Why should anyone believe what the military wrote about these atrocities, when it had so much to lose by reporting them? Insane and not recommended.
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